The Bozeman weekly chronicle. (Bozeman, Mont.) 1883-1889, 1887-06-29
THINGS TERRITORIAL

1 the Northern Pacific road hetween 81
Panl and the Pacific coast.
| Eight persons escaped from the Jail ii
Helena, Monday night. They wer,
locked up as usual the night before, bu
when the jailer opened the door in tn,
morning rot man was to be seen. TIL,
fugitfves have not been found-but it !,
certainly poor reflection on the person,
who erected building to hold criminall
with "a wall so thin, and brick so sof
that a man could kick hole through the
wall by the vigorous application of {
nailed boot heel"
Col Broadwater has received tele
gram from the headquarters of the Man
itoba. sayin. that both the temporary
and permanent lines Of the road would
touch Fort | enton. a point which the
people of that locality feared for while
the road would pass at distance of sev.
eral miles. The company will build
tracks at all points where the work Ii
heavy and canculated to delay the plans
that contemplate completion to Grea,
Falls by September 18th.
General Lester S. Wilson, of Bozeman
one Of the most conservative and sub
stantial citizens of the Territory says
there is no doubt but the Butte & Boze.
man Short Line will be built. Nelson
Story, one of the wealthiest and also
most conservative Montanians, SAYS the
same thing, and he is ready to contribute
his full share of the money to make the
enterprise an assured success. Butte's
capitalists and business men mean busi.
ness, and will see that the scheme is
carried out to successful conclusion.
The surveys are already well advanced
ami the work of construction will I'M.
doubtedly be commenced this season,
But little time will be lost in making
alliances with either present or pros.
pective con panies in the Territory
Immediate and direct connection be.
tween the two cities is too important
to admit of delay from any causes,-
Miner.
1t is thought Montana stands a good
show of being admitted into the union
next winter. The nbstructionsts are
beginning to open their eyes with won.
derment at our rapid growth in popu.
lation and wealth, and they cannot much
longer bar us out Of our just position
among the states. The plea of insult.
ficient population or wealth has lost its
force, and nothing but political reasoni
are left upon which to refuse admission
We will have a population by fall O
175,OOO. The total assessment of the
Territory for the year 1885 amounted te
$55.076,S7l SO, which amount will he in
creased this year despite disastrous
winter. Fully ten million dollars viii
be expended in railroad building, in tn,
territory while the mineral output will
be larger than that "f any other state o
territory. The claims of Montana canno
be ignored by Congress.
I
Hon. Sam Word is back again to Butt.
after a trip to Dillon on railroad buzz
ness. A reporter of the Inter Mountain
interviewed him this morning in regar,
to the project of the construction of
short line from Bozeman to Butte. MI
Word said: "The roject as it was pub
lished is substantially correct. The in
corporators are Henry Elling. d. Nc
Cranor, W. w. Morris, W. A. Clark, Hi
ram Knowles and Sam Word. You cal
state that the company has the mean
to build road and intends to do it.
would be premature to give our plan
in detail at present, but the public cal
rely on it that the road from Butte t
Bozeman and Up the Madison valley
among the certainties of the future
The capital stock is one million dollar
with power to increase indefinitely
Inter Mountain.
]. W. Shively, giving his address q
Brainerd, Minnesota writes to Secretar
Lamar, of the interior department, d.
failing his alleged experiences in Ye
lowstone National Park few days az
says the Independent. He tells tn
secretary that the park is infested by
lot of robbers, cut-throats and thieve
who are engaged in slaughtering Rock
Mountain sheep by knocking them dow
with clubs while they are stuck in tn
deep snow in the mountains and unab
to escape. He says that game is bein
exterminated by these illegal hunte
and that little is being done to preve,
it. Capt. Moses Harrison, who has con
mand of the military forces in the par
representing government authorit
writes Secretary Lamar that a ms
named Andrews had been captured
the Park while on what was representt
to be a hunting expedition. Andre,
afterward escaped from custody. b
left behind him his horse, arms al
equipments, which are being held gu
: ject to the order of the department.
game was found on Andrews and he
MED ever having had any intention
: hunting in the Park.
1 The citizens of Radersburg have
idea that they are again to be the cent
of a mining boom, and this is not wit
ont a good foundation. Business is
, present livelier in that place than it h
been for some time, and when the nj
force ofmen who are to work on the Kc
ing and Blacker mines come, business "
boom still more. These mines are sit
ated mile and half from that quai
and picturesque little burg of the son
what MEDIEVAL mein. which maybe
It's tree embowered homes, and welcol
out.of-the wayactiveness had always h
an attraction for the writer. There {
), the main shafts, each covered with
huge frame building containing I
ponderous engines and other machine
8 for hoisting etc. The hoisting apac
Is of each mine is over 100 tons per d
which with ore worth $50 per ton,
Is unlimited quantities, is wealth for SOL
and well paid labor for many. At pres
there are six four-horse teams haul
= the ore to the reduction works at I
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